Category:The Amazon
Category:The Amazon
Category:The Amazon
These riverfolk are defending their ancestral territory
Brazil has licensed explosions of the Lourenção Rocks, a vital Amazon fishery and biodiversity refuge, as part of plans to open the Tocantins River to agribusiness shipping. Riverfolk who depend on the area say their rights were violated and they were never consulted.
Category:Venezuela
Indigenous Venezuelans are in the path of U.S. oil development. What will happen to them?
The Warao Indigenous people of Venezuela have migrated en masse due to pollution of their lands in the Orinoco Delta. Now the Orinoco Oil Belt is in the sights of U.S. oil development ambitions — and the Warao could be impacted again, experts say. Includes a video interview.
Category:The Amazon
Christmas note from an Amazonian River slated for explosions
AUDIO: A quick note from a reporting trip to the Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon. I visited Tauiry Village, where Brazil's govt. plans to install a construction site to blow up the rocky riverbed for 3 years. The traditional riverfolk who live there are fighting it.
Category:Climate
Indigenous Women Occupy Agency to Stop Canadian Belo Sun Mine in the Amazon
WATCH: Indigenous peoples say the mine, layered on top of the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, puts their territories and food security at risk.
Category:Climate
An Offense to Forest Spirits
Shaman Nato Tupinambá, of the of the Amazon's Indigenous Tupinambá people, evaluates COP30. For him, the real COP was in the Peoples' Summit, which among other things, called on leaders to implement zero deforestation strategies and end criminal rainforest fires.